First Cow, the new A24 film from minimalist director Kelly Reichardt, will open on March 6th at the Angelika Film Center and AMC Lincoln Square. Q&A sessions with Reichardt will follow certain screenings at both locations on March 6th and 7th. Set in rural Oregon (like many of Reichardt’s previous ...
The acclaimed Russian post-WWII drama Beanpole, directed by 28-year-old Kantemir Balagov — who won Un Certain Regard’s Best Director prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for this “richly burnished, occasionally harrowing rendering of the persistent scars of war” — is still screening at the Film Forum in Manhattan through ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE GUNS OF NAVARONE This week’s classic is The Guns of Navarone, the 1961 World War 2 action adventure drama directed by J. Lee Thompson. Although a work of fiction, The Guns of Navarone was inspired by the actual wartime conflict in the Aegean Sea, and opens with ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | AND JUSTICE FOR ALL This week’s classic is And Justice For All, a 1979 drama directed by Norman Jewison. In one of his most memorable, signature roles, Al Pacino stars as Arthur Kirkland, a passionate Baltimore defense lawyer who, despite the corruption and chaos swirling around him, is ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | LOVE AFFAIR This week’s classic is Love Affair, the 1994 romantic drama directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. Beginning with its retro-style opening credits and cabaret star Bobby Short’s jaunty rendition of a 1920s pop tune, Love Affair seems like a glossy studio picture from an earlier time; that’s ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | SENSE AND SENSIBILITY This week’s classic is Sense and Sensibility from 1995, a delightful adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved first novel scripted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee. Emma Thompson co-stars with Kate Winslet as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, devoted yet very different sisters who find ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | GATTACA This week’s classic is Gattaca, a 1997 a science fiction drama directed by Andrew Niccol. Set in the unspecified future, Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, smart and ambitious, yet also seriously underemployed, working as a janitor at the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation, a space travel conglomerate launching missions ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT This week’s classic is In the Heat of the Night, the 1967 crime drama murder mystery directed by Norman Jewison. Flanked by the release of To Sir, With Love and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night was ...
France’s selection for the 2020 Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film, and a sensation at the Cannes International Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize, LES MISÉRABLES opened today at Angelika Film Center. Inspired by the 2005 riots in Paris, LES MISÉRABLES follows Stéphane (Damien Bonnard), a recent transplant ...
